Queer Mountain is a conspicuous black mountain

Mountain

Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 (1,180 m) with steep slopes showing bands of sandstone above the granite, standing 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Killer Ridge

Killer Ridge

Killer Ridge is a dark ridge rising over 1,000 m between Crisp and Miller Glaciers in the Gonville and Caius Range, in Victoria Land. Charted by the British Antarctic Expedition and named after the killer whale, whose outline the ridge is said to resemble....

, between the Cotton and Miller Glaciers, in Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. Mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13), it was so named because, though surrounded by glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

, it has nearly every rock in the district, including coal beds, represented on its cliffs.